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Jet Bussemaker

State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport

Mariëtte (Jet) Bussemaker was born in Capelle aan den IJssel on 15 January 1961.

After completing her secondary education she studied political science at the University of Amsterdam, graduating in 1986. She was awarded a doctorate in social sciences in 1993 for her thesis on independence, individualisation, gender and the welfare state.

In 1985 and 1986 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam's history of doctrines and socioeconomic and political history unit. From 1986 to 1988 she was a policy officer at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, where she was involved in promoting research in women's studies.

Ms Bussemaker returned to the University of Amsterdam in 1987, where she worked as a researcher and research programmer at the Faculty of Political and Sociocultural Sciences and the Faculty of Education until 1988, as a lecturer at the Political Science Department until 1990 and as a researcher at the Faculty of Political and Sociocultural Sciences until 1993. From 1991 to 2007 she worked as a lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the VU University, Amsterdam. She was a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University in 1997.

Ms Bussemaker was a member of the House of Representatives of the States General for the Labour Party (PvdA) from 1998 to 2007.

She has been secretary of the equal opportunities organisation Stichting Landelijke Ombudsvrouw, chair of the practising political scientists section of the Dutch Political Science Association, chair of the supervisory board of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts and member of the advisory board of the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute.

On 22 February 2007 Ms Bussemaker was appointed State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport in the fourth Balkenende government.

22 February 2007